Composition for the treatment of goiter



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFlCE PAULJBOMMARITO, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

' T all whom it may concern:

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Be it known that I, PA L BOMMARITO, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented a new'and useful I Improvement in a Composition for the gland is disturbed. 20.

-- Treatment of Goiter, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a composition, which is particularly adaptable for use in the treatment of goiter. In medical science, goiter is considered to be a patholo ical enlargement of the thyroid g1 nd, in which the biological cells of this glan are abnormal to such an'extent that the hysiological internal secretion of the thyroid gland in the last stages of the goiter is prevented, and in all stages, the internal secretion of the thyroid It is recognized that a treatment which will revive the internal secretion of the gland, will serve to. restore the biological cells to normal condition, decrease the enlargement,.and remove the pathological disturbance. r v 4 Thedecrease of the enlar ement and the removal ofthe pathological. isturbancewill be effected by-the revival of the normal flow of the internal secretion oft-he gland, but the treatment which will revive the internal se-.

, cretion, will also directly aidthe restoration of the biolo 'calcellsto normal condition.

To provi e a composition which will produce the desired efiect, is an object of the present invention.

In the composition, the ingredients used are: Elementa iodine, potassium iodide, guaiacolgdistille water,=and glycerine.

The fundamental ingr edients whichare designedto aflect'the blological cel-ls'of the thyroid gland in the manner indicated, and remove the pathological disturbance are:

1 elementary iodine, potassium 'iodide, andguaiacol.

v j The distilled water serves as a vehicle for.

f the fundamental ingredients and asa sol:

vent. The glycerine also serves as a .sol-

vent, and tendsto reduce irritation incident to the injection of the composition and con t'rols, tolsome extent, the reactionresulting from .theinjeetion.

' .In' this description,

state.

. These ingredients preferablyfaisedfin' the follow ng prpportions, to wit: element-rh e elementary iodine referred to -is,,the p'u e. iodine"in lcrystal K iodine, potassium iodi e,'gi1aiac ol, in solution .in a vehicle suitable for intra-muscular Application filed May 4, 1925. Serial No. 28,019.

tary iodine, twenty centigrams; potassium iodide, two grams; guaiacol, four grams;

distilled water, fifteen-grams; pure neutral glycerine, ten 'ams.

It will be noted that the glycerine is set out as being pure and neutra solvent lmust be firee from any qualities The composition is administered by intramuscular 1n ect1ons and on this account, the

which would unduly irritate, or infect the person receiving the treatment. The amount of the mixture which will be injected and The potassium iodide serves to assist the dissolving of the elementary iodine.

Whether or not there is any chemical reaction between the ingredients usedg the applicant is at present unable to state. The statement is made, however, that the ingredients used have given very satisfactory results in the treatment of cases of goiter, in various "degrees of development, and the composition set out herein is the result of 8 long and frequent experiments, so that the applicant is convinced that, the three funda- -mental ingredients used are essential and that they have .a co-operative relation in their eifect on the patient treated. This conyiction has arisen from the studied results in many experiments in which one of the fundamentals was omitted and the other two combined. The ex eriments were also carried further in coni ining two of the fundaing'redieits', the result bein vmentalingredients set out-herein with other o thatthe com- I *POSltlOll set out herein-was 'scoveredj to be be the" most efl'eetive,although itwill readily appear to thoseskilied in the practiceflof '-medicine, that slightvariations 1n the proportionate amounts might be had without diminishing, to any great extent, the benefits defivedfmm use-0f the t position,

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p 1. A composition for intra muscular treat ment' of goiter, com rising: elementary injection'z" '5 centigrams; potassium iodide, two

2. A composition for intra-muscular treatment-of goiter, comprising the following ingredients in substantially the proportions I set-'out, to wit: elementary iodine, twenty grams; guaiacol, four grams; distilledwater, fifteen grams; pure neutral glycerine ten grams, J

l 3. A composition for intro-muscular treatment of goiter comprising in substantially V I the proportions set out the following ingredi- 10 e'nts, to wit: elementary iodine, twenty centigrams; potassium iodide,- two grams; guaiacol, four grams; and a vehicle suitable for intro-muscular injection.

foregoing specification.

In testimony whereof, I have. signed the "k i 

